BY SERDAR TUMGOREN
BERGEN RECORD

North Jersey supporters of Sen. Barack Obama, energized by his victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses, held a series of rallies Saturday a month before the New Jersey primary.

The state is considered a stronghold of Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, but Obama supporters said Iowa showed anything is possible Feb. 5, the electoral day known as Super Tuesday. That is when Democrats in New Jersey and 21 other states will choose presidential nominees.

"I was worried, but if [Obama] can win in Iowa, he can do anything," said Angela Fraser, a 46-year-old Paterson schoolteacher who attended a rally in Paterson. Despite poll numbers giving Clinton a commanding lead in New Jersey, Fraser said she could vouch for at least 40 family and friends as Obama supporters.

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